Rooted in Carthage
Carthage stood where Tunis stands. A name from there says where Punica is built and who it is built for.
Brand and press
Punica. The apple of Carthage.
Punica is the pomegranate's Latin name, the Punic apple, the fruit of Carthage. We took it for an AI platform built in Tunisia: many models and agents, held together like seeds in one fruit.
Why Punica
From malum punicum to Punica granatum.
Punicus is Latin for Carthaginian, from Poeni, the Roman word for the Phoenicians who founded Carthage. The Romans met the pomegranate through Carthage and named it after the city: malum punicum, the Punic apple, or malum granatum, the apple of seeds.
When Linnaeus classified plants in 1753, he joined the two: Punica granatum. The name has carried Carthage with it ever since, and Carthage is in Tunisia.
- 814 BC, by tradition
Carthage is founded on the Gulf of Tunis. Legend gives its founding to Queen Dido.
- Roman times
Latin writers call the pomegranate malum punicum, the Punic apple: the fruit of Carthage.
- 1753
Linnaeus names the genus Punica and the fruit Punica granatum, the seeded apple of Carthage.
- Today
Pomegranates still grow across Tunisia, and Testour holds a festival for them every year.
Many seeds, one fruit
A pomegranate is hundreds of seeds held together. Punica is many models and agents working as one, which is why its cursors move as a crew.
A family of names
Hannibal, Carthage's general, writes and reasons. Dido, its founding queen, speaks. Fennec, the desert fox, listens. Punica holds them.
Guidelines
How Punica looks and sounds.
The mark and the name
The pomegranate mark beside the name punica, set in lowercase. The mark is pomegranate red; the name takes the text colour. Use them together; the mark alone is for icons and small spaces.
- Leave clear space of half the mark's height on every side.
- Keep the mark at least 16 px tall on screen.
- Do not stretch, outline, rotate or add effects.
- Do not set the name in another typeface or recolour the mark beyond red, ivory or black.
Colour
Graphite and ivory carry the page. Pomegranate red is the accent: the mark, a live dot, a small glow, never a background.
Pomegranate
#E5484DThe mark and small accents. Never a surface.Graphite
#0E0E10Pages and panels.Surface
#161618Menus, cards and dialogs.Ivory
#F3F1ECText and the primary button.The crew
Type
Inter for everything people read, IBM Plex Mono for labels and code, Instrument Serif in italic for the rare accent.
Inter
Describe it. Watch it build.
IBM Plex Mono
DEVELOPER PLATFORM · 200 OK
Instrument Serif
under your brand
The cursor crew
Punica is shown working: a crew of coloured cursors builds each page, points at what to do next and follows the visitor, whose own cursor is white and says You. Tags are short and lowercase: just ask anything, call Hannibal.
Voice
Plain, warm and specific. Numbers over adjectives, short sentences, no hype. Arabic words in our copy are Tunisian Derja: the greeting is Aslema, عسلامة, never another dialect's.
WriteAslema, Sarra. What are we building today?
NotUnlock the revolutionary power of next-generation AI!
Press kit
The facts, in one place.
- Name
- Punica, after Punica granatum, the pomegranate of Carthage
- Built in
- Tunisia
- Founder
- Aladin Ben
- Website
- punica.tn
- Media contact
- aladin@memorality.com
- Languages
- English, French and Tunisian Derja on the site; model behaviour is described on each model page.
- Punica Chat ↗
Conversations, content and web-app building. An account is required to continue in chat.
- Hannibal ↗
Language, writing and image understanding, including Tunisian Derja.
- Fennec ↗
Speech recognition for Tunisian recordings and French code-switching.
- Dido ↗
Tunisian speech synthesis, with voice availability shown in the live interface.
- Apps built on Punica ↗
Published community projects. A demonstration featuring a company name is not evidence that the company is a Punica customer or partner.
- Developer API ↗
Chat, transcription and speech endpoints, with request examples and current model identifiers.
- Enterprise ↗
Punica under your brand, for companies, agencies and teams.
Evaluating the tools
Try your own prompt or recording and check names, numbers, negations and language switches. Our evaluation worksheet provides fictitious test cases and space to record results across tools. It is a method, not a performance ranking.
Read the evaluation protocol in French ↗ · Download the CSV worksheet
Attribution
Use the mark and name as shown above for editorial coverage, keeping their proportions, and link to something readers can try. Model outputs can contain errors; archived audio samples are labeled on the product page and are not measurements of the current deployment. No comparative performance ranking is claimed here.
En français
Punica est une plateforme d'intelligence artificielle construite en Tunisie, nommée d'après la grenade de Carthage, Punica granatum. Elle permet de travailler en darja tunisienne, de créer du contenu et de construire des applications web. Hannibal traite le langage, Fennec transcrit la parole et Dido produit de la voix. Pour un entretien ou une vérification factuelle, contactez Aladin Ben à l'adresse ci-dessus.